Falling
2025 · 2m · USA
Directed by Mark O'Connell
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
An improvisational experimental film treating falling as pure kinetic state — descent as rhythm, not consequence.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Ninety-nine seconds of falling as jazz riff — same maker as Reddish and Snow Geese, and at some point the brevity stops being a virtue and becomes the only feature. Slight.
O'Connell treating falling as kinetic state rather than narrative event places this within the Maya Deren / Brakhage lyric-film tradition, and the improvisational register is genuine. A small piece of considered cine-poetry.
1:39 improvisational sky-fall experiment from Mark O'Connell — hashtagged with #sky #explode #drift #cease, which suggests genuine kinetic intent. Single-author micro-experimental territory; craft is in the gesture.